Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has urged Birmingham City Council and striking refuse workers to end the city’s bin strike.

He said: “Let’s move it on and get a settlement and get it sorted quickly.”

And Mr Corbyn said it would be easier to bring the strike to an end following the resignation of John Clancy as leader of the Labour-run council.

Coun Clancy stood down after his attempts personally to negotiate an end to the strike ended in failure.

Speaking to BBC One’s Sunday Politics West Midlands, Mr Corbyn said: “There is now the opportunity very rapidly to come to an agreement so that the people of Birmingham can have what they deserve, an efficient rubbish collection service and clean streets. They deserve it.”

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He said he had spoken to trade union Unite and city MPs about the strike in recent days.

“I’ve spoken to Unite. I’ve spoken to the Labour MPs for Birmingham over the last few days and I’m very pleased that we are now in a position, following the resignation of John Clancy, to elect a new leader, there is already an acting leader, and hopefully we will now get a resolution to this dispute.

A wall of bin bags on Medley Road, Sparkhill

“Because there has to be rubbish collections, there has to be security of employment for the bin men.”

He added: “There has to be a settlement quickly.”

Shard End councillor Ian Ward is the city council’s acting leader, and favourite to become the new leader of the city’s Labour group of councillors - making him leader of the council - when they hold a ballot on September 28.

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Mr Corbyn said he did not believe the bin strike would damage Labour’s support in next year’s council elections.

He said: “We are electing a new leader of Birmingham CIty COuncil. He or she will deal with the issue of the bin dispute and I think you’ll see that BCC will remain a LAbour council. There is huge support for Labour across the West Midlands.”

He was interviewed by the BBC’s Midlands Political Editor Patrick Burns, as Labour begins its annual conference in Brighton.